American Studies 2016

NYC video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV6A8fQ04
sunshine and shadow at 43 minute mark
students have handout


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2nd Semester readings






WW2


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/17/japanese-internment-is-precedent-for-national-muslim-registry-prominent-trump-backer-says/?utm_term=.48446943bb47



Great Depression





in class activity- AmerSt Firesidechats- music lyrics- listen and respond to questions on FDR chats, Father Coughlin and youtube- G.Bush. Also complete lyrics sheet w/worksheet and music


1920s

Additional powerpoints for 1920s



Spanish American War- Imperialism primary documents several short readings (1 to 3 paragraphs)NOTE THIS IS NOT A PRIMARY DOCUMENT


primary documents 2nd Industrial Revolution- gilded Age, populism, progressive era, unions, robber barons v. captains of industry


Reconstruction Primary Documents

The below reading has several documents that are included in the reading,
Education, KKK, White Govt, Black Parliament, Andrew Johnson Pardon, First Reconstruction Act, We only had ignorance (reflections)

note the first few pages of this is NOT a primary document but overview.
(includes mail contract for those doing black codes and mail contract project
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Industrialization- Progressive Populism Gilded Age

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1st semester

Powerpoint 1820-1855

Project 1790-1814 primary source readings

Below are the articles in the packet in individual order





Constitution

Documents and material related to exam on 1700 to 1787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q77iwGlyXF4 (shays rebellion)

Other Primary Sources




Documents and materials covered in class or assigned as homework betwen start of school and 9/30
- Evaluates where the idea of American Exceptionalism originated and how the ideas associated with it evolved over time
Several readings including the Iroquios myth, founding of Jamestown and others.
Moving from factual questions to essential questions
Map showing the degree to which Puritans in England chose town names in New England that were the same

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/winthrop.htm (Winthrop City on a hill) John Winthrop's speech City on a Hill
Reading reviews the angst and tension that existed for Puritans

Primary source reading- Beginning of compulsory education in New England
-Primary source reading w/background - creation of Rhode Island as a pluralistic, secular State - Map showing the impact of English Civil War in the Colonies - NOTE Williams wrote his Tenets during the English Civil War
Reading about Dutch New Amsterdam
Ct. and Va. Diary-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yVl-w8cY8 part 1 NYC documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yVl-w8cY8 Dutch New York from Documentary series on NYC
Virginia insurrection against Colonial government
r Massachussets insurrection against Native Americans

Powerpoints

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For next area of study
Slave map- proportionately where were Africans brought to in the New World
http://www.slavevoyages.org/assessment/intro-maps
http://www.slaverysite.com/Body/slave_trade_1650-1860_b%20-%20www.slaveryinamerica.org.jpg